Thai Curry

Thai Curry is pretty simple. Take some curry paste, cook it up with meat / vegetables and some coconut milk, serve with rice. Easy.

You can buy your curry paste in a jar, but for a healthier, better tasting, more satisfying option, it is pretty simple to make your own. You will need a blender / food processor / hand blender, or worst case chop everything very finely and be willing to use a pestle and mortar.

Chop and blend together the ingredients into a paste. If you don't have one or more of the ingredients, then experiment.... try something that tastes similar, or leave them out altogether.

a little coconut milk taken from the tin you are going to use later
an onion or a couple of shallots
a couple of garlic cloves
red or green chilis to taste
a stalk of lemon grass (or Bart's lemon grass in oil)
a teaspoon of galangal or ginger
a couple of tablespoons of olive oil
a tablespoon of fish sauce
two tablespoons of lemon or lime juice
a couple of kaffir lime leaves
a teaspoon of ground pepper
a teaspoon each of coriander seeds and cumin seeds
half a teaspoon of nutmeg
a few blanched almonds

... and now .... depending on whether you want red of green curry paste ....

a green pepper and some chopped coriander leaves
... or
a red pepper and some tomatoes (fresh or tinned)

And that's it. See, I told you it was easy!